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Religion Dispatches
New Pew survey adds more data to the Tea Party religion.
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Religion Dispatches
Big Government is the sacred enemy that animates the Tea Party uniting it in opposition to death panels, socialists, gun-control advocates, unions, Obamacare, deficits, and so on…
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Religion Dispatches
Gov. Rick Scott broke with tradition to announce his budget in front of tea partiers in a central Florida church.
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Religion Dispatches
Tea Partier Phillip Dennis disputes Obama’s version of US history. Guess who’s right?
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Given the similarities between the protests in Egypt and the rhetoric at Tea Party protests it’s ironic to experience Mike Huckabee’s double standard.
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Religion Dispatches
Will both Huntsman and Romney run?
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Religion Dispatches
Bachmann’s Tea Party Caucus seminars will require a citation of ‘chapter and verse’ for all proposed legislation. Sound familiar?
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Religion Dispatches
The Tea Party-inspired constitutional recitation of January 6 immediately ran into the problems any fundamentalism has with sacred scripture: what do you do with the parts that speak to the original intent of an entirely different era—stoning adulterers, casting down fire on one’s enemies, selling all one’s possessions and giving to the poor, requiring the return of runaway slaves, and counting slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation?
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